Solutions Architect - Core FSI
Databricks · Posted Sep 15
Data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI intelligence platform services
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About the role
As a Solutions Architect, you will shape the future of the Data & AI landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the field, helping customers achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with our most strategic prospects and customers, work directly with product and engineering to drive the Databricks roadmap forward, and develop architectures and solutions using our platform.
What you will do
- You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
- You will work directly with the sales team to develop your book of business, define account strategies, and execute those strategies to help your customers and prospects solve their business problems with Databricks.
- Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications
- Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users
- Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
- 8+ years of experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others
- Strong consulting / customer facing experience , working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
- Coding experience in Python, R, Java, Apache Spark™ or Scala
- Experience building distributed data systems
- Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Available to travel to customers in your region
Preferred qualifications
- Nice to have: Databricks Certification
Benefits and support
- At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.
- At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
- We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.
About Databricks
Databricks is a data and artificial intelligence company that provides a unified Data Intelligence Platform built on a lakehouse architecture. The platform combines data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning, and generative AI to help organizations manage and scale their data assets natively across major cloud providers. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks enables thousands of enterprises worldwide to power advanced analytics, business intelligence, and autonomous AI agents.
- Industry
- Data and AI Platform Software
- Company size
- 17300+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $25.2B raised
- 2026-08-13Series L$5.0B
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Chief Financial Officer
Co-founder and Chief Architect
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